mark time

Example Sentences

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Coppola asked Journe if a human hand had ever been used to mark time.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

But I find that once you put a number down on paper, you can mark time against it.

From Slate • May 6, 2024

The town even plays a centuries-old bugle call three times a day from its clock tower to mark time passing by.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

As they talk in hesitant ways, almost afraid of offending the other, the windshield wipers mark time like a metronome.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2020

But the very fact of my having become his carer served as a reminder that we weren’t there to mark time.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro